Premier-designate Kathleen Wynne has been reaching out to the opposition, but NDP Leader Andrea Horwath and PC Leader Tim Hudak are not reaching back.

Wynne needs some support from the opposition, since she’ll be governing from a minority when she’s sworn in as premier on Monday and reconvening the legislature Feb. 19.

Much has been made of Wynne’s interpersonal skills and her Harvard-trained background as a conciliator. But in any conciliation, the parties have to want to come together.

There isn’t much indication of that.

Hudak responded to Wynne’s overtures by handing her his white papers, a series of policies, many of which are the antithesis of what the Liberal government has stood for, and will continue to sand for, if Wynne’s promise to “build on the legacy of Dalton (McGuinty)” is for real. Hudak wants to turn Ontario into a right-to-work province by removing the requirement to belong to a union and pay dues in closed shops, he wants to cut welfare rates and eliminate the Local Health Integration Networks that the Liberals plan to expand.

He also wants a legislated wage freeze for government workers. Since the Liberals just repealed Bill 115, which imposes contracts on teachers with wage freezes, it’s unlikely she’s going to bridge any gaps with Hudak.

Wynne gave a press conference after she won the leadership saying, “We absolutely have to work out our disagreements. I believe there are ways to find common ground.”

Strike out Hudak. He outright refused to support last year’s budget from the outset, and if he sticks to these positions, that’s what he’s doing again. Horwath, meanwhile, repeated her tactics from the first time she was asked to prop up a minority government last spring by outlining a list of priorities for the legislature, though she did not say they were conditions for her support of a budget. Last spring, she struck a deal with McGuinty that saw the NDP abstain, allowing the budget that contained a tax increase on wealthy income earners to pass, but things went south when Horwath changed the rules of the deal during the committee stage, leaving McGuinty fuming.

This time, Horwath wants the government to enforce a 15% reduction in auto insurance premiums, which she says would save drivers $226 a year. She wants guaranteed access to home care within five days, an inquiry into the cancelled gas-plant scandal and “a commitment to find savings within the current fiscal framework while protecting the quality of services Ontarians rely on.” If that means like it reads, Horwath wants to eliminate the $11.9 billion deficit without making service cuts, which would likely mean no meaningful reductions in the public sector, since wages are 50% of government spending.

As for the gas-plant inquiry and the insurance rate cuts, Wynne has rejected both, saying an inquiry would be too expensive and she wants to concentrate on insurance fraud, which the industry says costs it $1.6 billion a year.

Wynne might be amenable to addressing wait times for home care. But Auditor General Jim McCarter has said 11 of 14 Community Care Access Centres report wait times for home care, so that’s a big project. Horwath says her five-day guarantee would only cost $30 million. No word yet on what Wynne thinks of that one.

The only common ground is likely Horwath’s plan to introduce a motion that the legislature will never again be prorogued without public debate. All three leaders can likely support this. But after they agree to talk about shutting down the legislature, all bets are off.